Since mid-July, Tim Jeans has been the Chief Operating Officer of MyTravel Airways UK, under the new Managing Director Frank Pullman.
His replacement as Managing Director of MyTravelLite is Vanessa Lenssen, who was the Commercial Director of MyTravelLite under Jeans. However, I would say that Jeans is still the figurehead for MyTravelLite, at least in the eyes of the media.
And yes it’s all one AOC. To the paying public MyTravelLite is just a trading name of MyTravel Airways. Internally, MyTravelLite is a separate business unit that ‘buys its flying’ from MyTravel Airways.
stalling attitude: would have thought he more than anyone would know whether or not to take on Ryanair. Maybe he knows something
Well in an
interview on Friday, this was Jeans’ take on the situation:
I am sure Ryanair would prefer that we just bled to death quietly in the background and then pulled out but that simply won’t happen.
We’re even bigger than British Airways in Birmingham... Ryanair’s response was entirely predictable but is not one that will necessarily see us roll over and run off because they will be unable to dislodge us in our home market.
It’s good for a small start-up to be registering on the radar of the biggest and baddest bully in the playground... this is a battle that will be seen out over the next few years rather than months.